William E. Ladd

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William Edwards Ladd (born September 8, 1880 in Milton (Massachusetts) , † April 15, 1967 ) was an American surgeon who is considered a pioneer in pediatric surgery.

Life

Ladd went to school in Boston and studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1902 and an M.-D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1906. He was then Assistant Visiting Surgeon at various hospitals in Boston - including the Boston Children's Hospital  - before becoming an Assistant in Surgery at Harvard Medical School in 1912. The Halifax explosion in 1917 was a decisive experience for him. Together with other doctors and surgeons from Harvard, he set up an emergency hospital there and also treated hundreds of children, some of whom suffered severe cuts and burns to their faces when they saw the burning ship before the explosion watched through window panes. Ladd then decided to devote himself to pediatric surgery. In 1927 he became chief surgeon at Boston Children's Hospital. In 1945 he retired. His successor was (against his will) Robert E. Gross , who was originally his protégé and with whom he wrote one of the first textbooks on pediatric surgery, but whom he could not forgive for arbitrariness.

The Ladd Syndrome is named after him, a congenital volvulus and external obstruction of the small intestine . The name is unusual and not to be confused with LADD syndrome .

In the 1930s he developed a surgical procedure for malrotation (here the Ladd procedure and the Ladd ligaments are named after him).

The term "Ladd-Gross-Syndrome" (or "Gross-Ladd-Syndrome") refers to him together with Robert Gross for the bile plug syndrome .

Fonts

  • with Robert E. Gross Abdominal Surgery of Infancy and Childhood . Saunders, 1941
  • Congenital Obstruction of the Duodenum in Children . In: New England Journal of Medicine , Volume 206, 1932, pp. 277-280
  • HM Bill William E. Ladd, MD: great pioneer of North American pediatric surgery . In: Progress Pediatric Surgery , Volume 20, 1986, p. 52, PMID 3095882

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who named it
  2. ^ WE Ladd: Congenital obstruction of the duodenum in children . In: The New England Journal of Medicine , Boston, 1932; Vol. 206, pp. 277-283
  3. ↑ Ladd-Gross syndrome
  4. ↑ WE Ladd and RE Gross: In: Abdominal surgery in infancy and childhood . Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 1941
personal data
SURNAME Ladd, William E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ladd, William Edwards
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Milton
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1967